Help a starving writer get inspired

[hackthis_archive]

I have a favour to ask of you lot (no, not body disposal). I have been listening to the same mp3s fifteen times a day for nine months, and really, it's starting to grate and my plot bunnies are starting to riot. So -- I need something new. Something shiny. I need something I've never heard before -- or something I've heard but might have forgotten.

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses Matt Nathanson, your Tchaikovsky, your Jigga-what Jigga-who, your Ryan or Jeff or Snoop or Weekend Players, Portishead, Morcheeba, Massive Attack. Give me never-released Verve stuff! Give me your much-loved demos. Let's talk live recordings and 90s Brit-rock. Give me Motown and the Stones. The Beatles, the Supremes and the Strokes. Give me your Modest Mouse and other animal bands. Give me something you think I'll love. Give me something you think I've never heard. You have a song that reminds you of me* or Theodore or Seth or Jamie or hey, even Lex? Let me hear it. Please?

Stick on your website. Yousendit. Attach it by carrier pigeon, just you know, hook me up!

C'mon it's not like I'm asking for money blood. Hell, you can just send me someplace where I can DL stuff and I'll be happy -- but then I might wind up unemployed, so yeah, no kazaa or winx. I already have plenty of experience with them. Not of the illegal sort. No, never. Napsterwhat?

* (ethrosdemon and kattiya have already cornered the market on The Streets 'Fit But You Know It).

Icon courtesy of the lovely oxoniensis, who made me lots of pretties for my birthday. YAY!


ETN: You guys are spoiling me rotten! Don't stop! (Thank you :)

ETN #2: I see now that the way to find out who you people are is not to ask, but to send up a distress cry for music. ::makes note::

Comments

Re: Okay, one more

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Any band quasi-named after crackers must be tried.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Your icon is adorable.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I am currently listening to 'My Girlfriend, who lives in Canada' and I am pissing myself laughing. :) Also, Theodore and I have come to an agreement, if we can get through this next section, he can have all the hot, sweaty, sticky sex he wants, with whomever he wants.

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

I can post the links here:

k. d. lang - Hallelujah (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=FDEF4E0808BAC653FD7163CE240F96EB)

Allison Crowe - Hallelujah (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=A22BF4324006E72905A5987AABD6E2BF)

John Cale - Hallelujah (http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=92A10FC153243742A9632412C2C053DF)

Gavin Degraw - Hallelujah (http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=82962EF87CC19CFDA98916BD9E5511A6)

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=B4B3E24C66A5442E8182F5E083D8FDC8)

Ari Hest - Hallelujah (http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=67E7383CC5FE79DD03ABB17AD907CBBE)

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah (http://s16.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=83A09092C280886E30F57FB33C937578)

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=F568A6784EA036003C875B20A8D51131)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

How downloaded to testdrive. Will report back accordingly. Yis. ::hugs::

[starfishchick]

Oh! Thank you!

[confide.livejournal.com]

Try this before you do: Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah (http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=138794FF44EEF8DFF65F2A72397DF5CA).

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

I've uploaded a ton of songs here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/theantimodel/65646.html?mode=reply). I also have a bunch of travis mp3s up, but I think you've heard them already right?

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

Posted downloads to all the songs from the Lyrics Meme in my journal (http://www.livejournal.com/users/silverakira/57252.html); not quite sure what you like, but my personal favorites are 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20. [grin]

[goss.livejournal.com]

Hee! Akiva's great. He reminds me of Adam Brody somewhat, what with his mop-head and geeky tshirts (http://www.6oakplace.com/midterm/images/akiva4.jpg) (left). *g*

I have more of his songs if you're interested, they're mostly recorded from live performances though, so kinda rough.

[septembergurl.livejournal.com]

I can upload it for you, just give me a minute! :)

[septembergurl.livejournal.com]

Here you go (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=247C05F3A487BC51EF64220B5237AE37)

[faeana.livejournal.com]

Brand New - Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis (kolahi.com/maleeha/bn.mp3)

Just one, I know. But what can I say? I have random impulses. Maybe you will write angsty porn to it. I do not know.

[septembergurl.livejournal.com]

I don't know you - but then again I kind of do, since I've been reading your journal for quite a long time now. So here are some songs I thought you might like:

Lasse Lindh - 'Bruised (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=688D540CE632F1713F07BAE47D2F2CA1)' and 'The Stuff (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=AE6278018FFD1C139139628F2434556D)'

Whiskeytown - 'Wither, I'm a Flower (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=16242E9773F54A387DC95EBCE438CBC6)'

Jeff Buckley - 'Forget Her (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=E3AF257E2018741055D45FD232EF4CAB)'

Ryan Adams - 'Dear Chicago (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23ED749AD62EEE265EA280392E640CAA)'

Billy Bragg & Wilco - 'California Stars (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=D30FAC5686A5CB6D848AD84AF7ADE663) and 'One by One (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=D36E4FE1D1FB6BBC3D248C63DE594537)'

Oasis - 'The Masterplan (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=B419AA89A90F74749A7448BEF30408A7)' and 'Rockin' Chair (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0B820EA52411EB6769D9EB7380BB2C0F)'

Blur - 'Polished Stone (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=CB3DD37925BB30220D1650B6B42484C2)'

Joseph Arthur - 'Wasted (http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2D27D9F2658057DE721983DE6B61B7D4)'

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

Who knows all the cool people? Jesus.

Okay, but I know almost as many cool people as he does. So there.

[irishmarigold.livejournal.com]

Only one (I'd hate to list off a bunch of things you know), but they're local and I think they're pretty good.

Daphne Loves Derby (http://www.purevolume.com/daphnelovesderby)

Just off the top of my head

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

::clears throat::

My tastes madam?

The Verve, Jeff Buckley, Ryan Adams, Counting Crows, The Bluetones, Stereophonics, Nina Simone, Billie Holliday, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Ray Charles, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Turin Brakes, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Prince, Javier, Musiq, Madonna (but before Kabalah), Radiohead, Morcheeba, Portishead, STP, Aimee Mann, John Mayer (before he was famous), Oasis, Travis, Coldplay (I knew their old manager), Gomez, David Gray, The Charlatans, Earth, Wind & Fire, the Beatles, the Stones, not the Who, Blur, Wilco, Whiskeytown, Fiona Apple, Nas, Jay-Z, Biggie Smalls, Eminem, pretty much all old skool rap, but not so much the new, all things Motown and Brit-rock, but not the new British wave of noise -- Franz Ferdinand, etc. Yick. I can do alt-country better than regular country -- and I heart singer/songwriters. I'm not a heavy metaller at all -- but I can do the occasional hard rock. I'm very selective about my punk and my regaulr rock but I draw the line at gospel, Christian and emo. ;)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

::sigh::

Have downloaded. Have, now how. See what happens when you work too hard?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[lux--aeterna.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/lux__aeterna/120849.html

and there will be more too. i've been meaning to do this anyway, you just kicked me into gear.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I can't get to it? Nuts. What will the angsty porn bunny do!

[elzed.livejournal.com]

You don't really know me but I friended you a little while back. Couldn't help but be pulled into your requests when you mentioned mid-90s Brit-rock (or indeed Brit-pop) - my country, my generation - so I felt honour and duty-bound to go dig a few things out of my CD collection. Morcheeba. Massive Attack, Portishead and more. You probably know most of those tracks - and you may have them already but dammit, I felt like sharing. So here goes...

Primal Scream: Rocks (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=674D8D3FAC356461634FA23EE3D92D83)
Primal Scream: Moving on Up (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E9E92DA9BCC445C1824D456F7F583A4)
Placebo: Nancy Boy (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=74EDF6546F04E6A4CE2CACF9605725E4)
Suede: Trash (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31BAB298C7337F781B52598033B9C2D8)
Morcheeba: The Sea (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0F6C95A2372764513FF5979F9ED0CFA8)
Morcheeba: Big Calm (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=6257EEB9A72AF99A2E02FB782336455B)
Prodigy: Smack my Bitch Up (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=34A6CC97BDFF4BFC691B64BBFF2064FE)
Massive Attack: Unfinished Sympathy (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=21431E6134EC941F6BFB25B4B1E569C0)
Portishead: Wandering Star (http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=688E001D8605A80D26989927AEB838BF)


And I'm so glad I did this because I hadn't listened to some of these in ages. And I had forgotten how much I liked them. Hope you enjoy them...

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

This is, like, tailor-made for me. I mean, it really is. Whiskeytown and Ryan and Wilco? ::blinks:: Oasis and Blur. It's like battle of the people who really hated each other, but who I adored regardless. Also, 'Forget Her' is the song I use to convert people to the Jeff side. Yis. Thank you. Wow.

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

Um. I hope you don't mind, but I, uh because I've only been able to find Orange Sky and love it to death.

[is greedy]

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

Oh, no problem. I think each one's good for 25 downloads--no worries. And if they'd run out, I have no problem with you asking me to re-upload.